AN aged man was sitting by the fire in a poorhouse. He was poor and deaf, and his limbs were shaking with palsy.
"What are you doing?" said a friend who called to see him.
"I am waiting," he replied.
"And what are you waiting for?" "I am waiting for the coming of my Saviour!"
"And why do you wait for His coming?"
"Because I expect great things when He comes."
"What do you expect He will give you?"
"I know He will give me, because He has promised it, 'a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.' In His presence there is fulness of joy: and at His right hand there are pleasures for evermore. I am waiting for these."
How well that man might feel happy! He was living in the poorhouse indeed; and he was deaf, and shaking with the palsy, yet he was better off than the richest man in the world, or the mightiest king on his throne, who has no share in the things that God has prepared for them that love Him (1 Cor. 2: 9).
Messages of the Love of God 10/12/1958